World War II history
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Recent papers in World War II history
Kiegan Lloyd, "Vice, Virtue, and Memory: The Question of Fairness at Nuremberg," Culture, Society and Praxis 13, no. 2 (2021): 1-5.
As historians are becoming more aware of the diversity of the Australian prisoner of war experience during the Second World War, increasing numbers of Indigenous Australians' stories are being identified. Through the combined hard work of... more
"Still, something essentially sympathetic about Lucas persists, and his fate is heavy with pathos. Once he had been selected for a command he never should have held, he had no choice but to carry out his orders as he understood them, even... more
Alamein covers the events leading up to the battle in North Africa that turned the tides of war against the Axis Powers during World War II: the Battle of Al Alamein. The first part of the book is the history of the battle. Sections... more
This study examines the role of political factors in attitudes toward World War II in contemporary Ukraine. The question under examination is which factors determine public views of the principal warring sides and their leaders in... more
Dados da Segunda Guerra Mundial A Segunda Guerra Mundial teve amplitude maior do que na Primeira Guerra Mundial, estendendo-se através do Atlântico e do Pacífico pela Europa e a Ásia, e do Ártico ao Norte da África. Mais de cinquenta... more
This article is devoted to Birth Anniversary of Kurt Knispel, the highest scoring tank ace of World War II with a total of 168 confirmed tank kills. He was born in Salisfeld (Salisov) near the town of Zuckmantel (Zlaté Hory) in... more
An analysis of the plan of the German General Staff in the context of the military-political situation in Europe in the years before the outbreak of the Second World War and the aggression of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union, shows that... more
"There is an apocryphal story that German General Staff Chief von Moltke once said that it takes the loss of a full division to train a major general. As brutal and cynical as this sounds, if there is any truth at all in it and without in... more
Berdasarkan hasil penelitian maka dapat disimpulkan sebagai berikut: Pertama, tentara Jepang mulai memasuki Pontianak pada 2 Februari 1942 dan disambut dengan baik. Jepang melakukan mobilisasi terhadap rakyat untuk kepentingan perang... more
pag. 3-eDITORIALe: pensieri dal lockdown pag. 4-SOMMARIO pag. 5-Azzurri che si fanno Onore pag. 6-La presidenza comunica pag. 8-ceSVaM informa pag. 12-La Giornata della Memoria pag. 13-Il Giorno del Ricordo pag. 14-Il nuovo comandante... more
After the Second World War thousands of books focusing on the identification of the victims (both soldiers and civilians) have been published. However, those written between 1945 and 1990 are quite unreliable since the authors did not... more
Art and the Nazis 12/5/16 Chloe Hyman Art and the Nazis Professor Fogle 2 For the German people, the interwar years were marked by unemployment, economic collapse, and an overwhelming sense of demoralization. National Socialist ideology... more
This book is the first of a kind in that it covers South Africa's war in East and North Africa in a single volume. However, it is by no means a complete history. Some events, especially those which involve the South Africans, are dealt... more
La política diplomática y migratoria mexicana a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX se caracterizó por fomentar el respeto y colaboración entre naciones, velar por las garantías y derechos de las personas, así como respetar la... more
Mirosław Sikora, Die Waffenschmiede des »Dritten Reiches«. Die deutsche Rüstungsindustrie in Oberschlesien während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Hrsg. von Helmut Maier, Essen: Klartext 2014, 591 S. (= Bochumer Studien zur Technik-und... more
This book review appeared in the Yearbook of German-American Studies, volume 50, 2015, pages 254-258.
Varying figures appear in different sources documenting Royal Australian Air Force losses in Bomber Command. But why has there been such a discrepancy in the numbers and what is the more accurate figure? New research explains how the true... more
Roman Shukhevych conducted his first political assassination in 1926 at age 19. In 1934, he was jailed for his role in killing Poland’s Interior Minister. By 1940, he was attending a Nazi military intelligence (Abwehr) academy in... more
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the world’s two superpower countries the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after the finish of World War II. In... more
The author states that the "Europe First" strategy of the United States in World War II was more a political statement that a military strategy. He asserts that the U.S. effort required to defeat Japan has been underestimated by many... more
Praca źródłowa, zawierająca ponad 2300 biogramów, ustalonych na podstawie akt Sądu Grodzkiego w Białymstoku. Bohaterami publikacji są białostoczanie, którzy zaginęli lub - co najczęstsze - zginęli w wyniku działań II wojny światowej.... more
Public Diplomacy is much about communication, advocacy, and appeals. D-Day, June 6, 1944, and President Roosevelt's radio prayer to the American people allow us to take a professional look at public communication on “The Longest Day.”... more
The ideal of the unity of the Resistance is one of the most impervious myths of recent Italian history. Both historians and former partisans have propounded this ideal of unity, but the weight of historical evidence does not justify such... more
The brochure for an exhibit I designed at Brigham Young University using cupcakes and cake flavors to immerse the audience in the lives and experiences of women during World War II.
This paper explores the internecine conflict that characterised and undermined US propaganda toward neutral Spain in the Second World War. These tensions primarily confronted those who saw US propaganda as an ideological weapon of mass... more
В статье анализируется роль Бразилии во Второй мировой войне. Она была единственной страной латиноамериканского континента, пославшей свои войска в Европу для сражений с гитлеровцами. Рассмотрены характер боевых действий Бразильского... more
By the latter half of 1942, the High Command of the German U-Boats (BdU) realised that the “sinking results’’ of the North Atlantic had decreased immensely. The successes of the Allied anti-submarine operations in the North Atlantic... more
An overview of Stalin as war leader during World War II.
The German invasion of the Netherlands on the 10th of May 1940 was not only a tragedy for the Dutch people; it was also a tragedy for Dutch literature. In a few weeks time, the intellectual leaders of an entire generation would disappear.... more
What the excavations at Sobibor they challenge a prehistorian?
En quoi les fouilles à Sobibor interpellent-elles un préhistorien ?
En quoi les fouilles à Sobibor interpellent-elles un préhistorien ?
Betrayal in High Places, a book written in 1996 by the late James MacKay, has created debate among World War II historians and former prisoners of war (POWs) because it claims to reveal suppressed Allied reports of Japanese war... more
Articolo sulla storia della Linea Gotica in Toscana
The air war against Nazi Germany was the most dangerous theatre of operations for Australians in the Second World War. This article documents the experiences of members of the Royal Australian Air Force who served in RAF Bomber Command.
Archaeologist Joel Klenck conducted an archaeological identification project for prehistoric and historic properties covering approximately 70 acres on Breakers Point, for the American Samoa Historic Preservation Office, in compliance... more